Larry Jarvis

Director

Larry
Jarvis, AICP, joined the City of Raleigh in 2014 as Director of the Housing and
Neighborhoods Department, which combines three divisions: Community Development, Community Engagement and Code Enforcement. He is
a seasoned housing professional with more than 37 years of experience in
community development and affordable housing, real estate development and
neighborhood revitalization/redevelopment.

Larry
understands the importance of affordable decent housing and stable neighborhoods
for a healthy city. He brings a strong
background in neighborhood revitalization and redevelopment, including outreach
and community engagement, land acquisition and relocation. He has a thorough
knowledge of state enabling legislation related to affordable housing,
community development, redevelopment, and planning and code enforcement. In
addition, he brings more than 25 years of experience in the administration of
HUD-funded programs, including Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Home
Investment Partnership Program (HOME), the Emergency Solutions Grant Program
(ESG) and Continuum of Care.

Larry began
his career as a housing planner with the city of Tampa, where he was
responsible for the Housing Element of the Comprehensive Plan and Tampa’s first
Systematic Code Enforcement Plan. He
joined the private sector as the planning coordinator for Exxon’s Friendswood
Development Company in Houston, where he oversaw the programming and master
planning of land development projects ranging from 3,000 to 15,000 acres.

A North
Carolina native, he returned to make his home in Raleigh in the mid-1980s, and
became director of Development Services for the Wooten Company, administering
CDBG grants for many non-entitlement communities across the state. He then accepted the position of Assistant
Director of the City of Durham’s Community Development Department, where he
worked before joining the City of Raleigh.
In Durham, he was instrumental in
creating the vision, implementation strategy and multiyear/multisource funding
plan for the Southside Revitalization Project.

Larry
received a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, a Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, Virginia, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the
Kenan Flagler School of Business at UNC Chapel Hill.